Migrants at US-Mexico border: Nearly 1,000 children still not reunited with parents

Nearly 1,000 immigrant children who were separated from their families at the US-Mexico border during Donald Trump’s presidency have yet to be reunited with their parents, despite two years of efforts by Joe Biden’s administration.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, of those 998 children, only 148 are in the process of being reunited with their relatives.

After taking office in January 2021, Biden issued an executive order establishing a special task force tasked with locating and reuniting families.

The Democratic president had even described the separation of children from their parents as a “human tragedy”.

The Trump administration in the spring of 2018 separated thousands of immigrant families, implementing a “zero tolerance” immigration policy that prosecuted anyone who crossed the border illegally. Audit committees and prosecutors found that these separations began even before this policy was officially put into effect.

According to the ministry, the special unit, after scrutinizing “rough” records kept by the previous government, found that 3,924 children, mostly from Central American countries, were separated from their families at the border. Many were located and reunited with their families before Biden took office, thanks to a legal process that began when the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit to stop the policy.

“The number of new families identified continues to increase, as many appear on their own,” the ministry said. To date, the special unit has reunited 600 families.

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